Claim Of False Advertising Against Fox News Dismissed

The Nation - In Brief

July 20, 2004

NEW YORK -- The U.S. Federal Trade Commission rejected a complaint by two advocacy groups that Fox News Channel's slogan, "Fair and Balanced," is false advertising. FTC Chairman Timothy J. Muris said the agency couldn't decide whether Fox was making a false or deceptive advertising claim "without evaluating the content of the news at issue." That "is a task the First Amendment leaves to the American people, not a government agency," he said.